Greenpeace International activist, Gizem Akhan (from Turkey) meets her mother (in grey jumper), father and family relative (in black) at a hotel reception area in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The 'Arctic 30' (twenty-eight Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer) face charges of piracy and hooliganism for a peaceful protest against oil drilling in the Arctic. Gizem Akhan was released on bail from SIZO 5 detention centre on Friday the 22nd November. She has been detained for nearly two months.